When I was in practice I couldn't wear any scent, but now that I am happily retired I buy bath gel in fragrances which dissipate within an hour. Current favorites are Pomegranate Lime, Water Blossom and Freshwater Mist, all from ULTA.

I don't and cannot tolerate perfumes due to allergies and asthma.
I can't stand to be around people who bathe in the stuff. UGH!!!
:roll:

It seems like everything has perfumes of some sort in them. The hand soaps in the store restrooms are just overwhelming for me.

I had trouble finding bath products that I could use,
a nice lady makes unscented soap for me and I feel so much better. :-D

You are so lucky to be able to get the unscented soaps!

her website is: www.thevegetablecart.com

No--I sneeze and face swells and can't breathe

How do you make perfume? I make everything else at home, haven't tried that?

I would love to wear a fragrance, but my husband and I are both highly sensitive to most fragrances. It is not worth the breathing difficulties/rash ... wish things were different.

My daughter came over about 2:30, it is 5'30 i can still smell her cologne. I like natural scents, she likes dept. store fragrances. Maybe by tomorrow it will be better.

Vanicream has lotion and soap; no scents! I buy them at Walgreens, a drugstore here. You can also go online for Magick Botanicals for shampoos and body washes. Anyone who is sensitive should look for non-scented as apposed to unscented. Unscented means they put something in to take out the smell.

I used to wear perfume, but decided that since I could not smell it on me, what was the purpose in wearing it.

one spray of Eternity by Calvin Klien but not for everyday. lol only when I feel "pretty"

I work in a hospital and rarely do you smell perfume, It's a no no.

when I was working we had a patient that had severe asthma attacks because one of the nurses wore perfume ...Musk was the worse for her. Bless her soul if you were the nurse assigned to her she would ask what kind of perfume you were wearing. I could understand it is her health

I teach middle schoolers so I always wear perfume. I have to counteract the horrible sweat smell a roomful of them can produce ;)))

I am a substitute teacher and middle schoolers are the worst. They are so insecure in themselves that they always have perfume, lotions, nail polish and deodorant with them and use them in class! Not to mention the glues used in some classes! It's all bad.

I just put a spritz on my hair.

I am so highly allergic to perfumes and candles that I have pretty much quit wearing it entirely. I really wish more workplaces would ban perfumes as there are days I can hardly breathe in my office with the strong perfumes a couple of the women wear. Instant headache and then my throat dries up and I start coughing when they come within a few feet of my desk.

I wear perfume occasionally. However, since I work as a home health aide my job is one of those that you shouldn't wear cause of people being allergic, sensitive to smells etc. However, if the perfume is worn right, right scent and proper amount there is nothing wrong with it.

Thanks so much!

I like the smell of perfume, but I know it bothers a lot of people so I only wear it VERY rarely. Never to work or where I will be in close quarters with people I don't know. I don't want to set off anyone's asthma or migraine

I do not wear it any more. My DH is very allergic. After all these years, I am also very sensitive to fragrences. :thumbup:

most people dont seem to care for scents; I on the other hand LOVE LOVE LOVE all smells. I make some in a solid form, I collect samples, I wear only white linen most of the time, and in the heat I wear a lemon scent. White linen seems a soapy, clean smell to me while citrus makes me feel cooler.
I cant tell you how many times Ive followed a guy around just to get a wiff! In toronto I once followed a scent trail thru a store and up an escalator to catch a guy and ask him what he was wearing so I could get some for my husband.

perfume is like sound or color to me- I love certain music for how it makes me feel, mostly things w/o words, just the sounds. And, the feel of fabrics and the colors; batiks make me swoon!

I got creative and made solid perfumes I named: BBQ, Dirt, Lawn, and New Car - They actually smelled like they were named in the holder, and then when you put them on they had other sides notes etc that smoothed them out. It was for guys, though I made the dirt for me since I love to work in soil I liked having a nice soil smell around me. I want to make soap and make it smell like dirt :> I dont just like the nice smells, I like the smell of cow and horse barns, too. sharet

agree with alikat110-just don't wear it because for 40 years working in hospital I never wore perfume-so what'sthe sense in buying it? :thumbdown:

DITTO !!
DOUBLE DITTO !!

I don't use perfume because I stink! I love to wear it and I love expensive brands. I love how it makes me feel.
How many of you that can't stand the smell of perfume, smoke?

Both make me sick.

Way too senstive to scents to even contemplate wearing any. Can't stand scented soap or handlotion or shampoos &c onditioners. Gives me horrible headaches. Noticed lately, like since bday in Feb when hit 47, that during PMS season I am more scent sensitive than normal. Just more weird body chemistry for me and can be real pain in the patootie to boot when in grocery stores or restaurants.

I used to wear perfume but as I got older, sometimes I can hardly breathe from people's perfume. An after bath spray light and floral scented seems to work well.

I used to wear perfume but as I got older, sometimes I can hardly breathe from people's perfume. An after bath spray light and floral scented seems to work well.

I have allergies to that.

I don't smoke and don't allow anyone to do in my home or vehicles.

The people that love to wear perfume just need to have one allergy or asthma attach. There is nothing worse than not being able to breath and are coughing from your toes up trying to get some air.

Yes they smell pretty but they make people sick. They may not make you sick but to you pay attention to the people around you???

I think they should band smoking and perfume. Sorry but I like to breath.

Quilterfay

[quote=Quilterfay]I don't smoke and don't allow anyone to do in my home or vehicles.

The people that love to wear perfume just need to have one allergy or asthma attach. There is nothing worse than not being able to breath and are coughing from your toes up trying to get some air.

Yes they smell pretty but they make people sick. They may not make you sick but to you pay attention to the people around you???



It is not the scent that causes the reaction, it is the chemicals put in by the manufacture of the scent. Natural florals fade fast, so they put in a chemical fixer to make it last and last. You think you smell like a pretty flower, I smell a chemical stew. Very few perfumes are made with essence oils, and non of the cheaper ones for sure. The same with scented products like fabric softeners and such. Essential oils are very expensive, some over a hundred dollars an ounce. Do you think that box of dryer sheets you got at the Dollar Tree is any thing but a product of chemistry, or that $10 perfume from the drug store?
I am a non smoker, and try to live with out any fake perfumes. I love the natural scent of flowers or spices.
Please think of others when you "lightly spritz" that chemical stew on your body or clothing, do you really think we can't smell it? or that it won't make an allergic person ill? Your light spritz might send me to the medicine cabinet.
It is a matter of common curtesy, we all have to live on this increasingly smaller planet. If you must wear some thing to feel pretty could you please keep it to your time at home, I promise I won't come to your place and tell you what to wear.

I am kind of like Quilterfay. I get a headache when I have to breathe someone else's perfume/cologne/body spray, etc., etc. or cigarette smoke. I really do not want to be rude or offensive but I really have lots of problems with it.
One time someone told me they took a shower and sprayed on perfume/cologne, layed their clothes out on the bed and sprayed their clothes, dressed and then sprayed themselves again. Needless to say, I stayed far, far away from them.

Oh my! Please help me. Do not hug me if you have on cologne or anything that has a fragrance, or you reek of cigarette smoke, and please do not come within three to six feet of me. I love you and please love me enough not to make me breathe in your cologne/perfume, cigarette smoke, etc.
I really apologize for being so intense about this subject. I know I am not the only one who is bothered by or is allergic to these things.

I have a blend that I wear that I found on my own, but the only people who can smell it are the people who hug me. A little goes a long way. When my DD's hug me, they always say "Mmmm...mom smell". I dab on touches of two perfumes. My own unique scent. I have worn them since high school. DH says 'never change it". Works for me. Others have never mentioned it. For the record, my two scents are essential oils.

I am a smoker and stink and no amount of perfume will make me smell good. I have often wished they made a perfume that smells as good as my horse. Love that smell and the smell of leather!

One year I asked a woman at the quilt show in Houston if it was really cost effective to buy her perfume by the gallon.

I am also allergic to cigarette smoke! It's not that I don't like smells; they don't like me. When I meet a scent I'm allergic to, it smells like all the others. I can't distinguish between one perfume or another; it just smells the same and makes my face swell and starts a migraine. When I can actually smell one that doesn't do that to me, then I usually like the smell.

Who can buy the stuff,way over priced.

Something like that happened to me when I was in the hospital for a gall bladderectomy. The lab tech that came to take blood was wearing a ton of perfume and I had a severe asthma attack(hadn't had one in years), I had no inhaler with me the nurses didn't realize how bad it was. I thought I was gonna die. Finally they got the respiratory therapist into my room with meds to help. I don't think people in the medical/dental profession should wear scents to work because of people like me.The head nurse put a sign on my door "No Perfumes!" I was quite relieved.

I like perfume but living in the country get very few chances to wear any. Don;t want to attract bees etc. When I do wear it, it is a little.

I used to work in a place where one lady wore so much scent, it left a trail in the halls and stairwells after she had gone by, no kidding. And she was a scientist with a doctoral degree too. You would think she would know better.